Posted:12th Oct 2001I must say i am getting damn tired of this American Ghetto slang. An I apologize to people in other countries that have to hear it used. So i want to start using some slang from other countries but i have no idea what you people might say. Like i know for a fact people from England has some crazy slang cause i was talking to and English girl one day and i had to keep asking what she ment.But for the people outside of the US here is our slang...these all mean it's really cool: thats really cool, Thats Hot!, Tight, sweet, Dude that's badass,ways to refer to a close guy friend: Bro, Dude,Son(oh i hate that one),Ma Nigga,wyas to refer to a girl: BITCH!, girl,female,biznitch,slut(and this is from a friend,,sheesh),chickenheadways to say hi: Hi , hey, whats up, Sup (shortened whats up),Yo,How's it flowin, or just a hand shake that if you didn't know what it was , looks like a secret handshake but everyone does it.Well thats all i can think of ,, please i wanna use some international slang , so tell me what you go. :> )cheers,,heheShizzle ma nizzle biznitch

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Posted:25th May 2002C@ntus, do you have any 'Doyo's by you? My nanny Sue from over there saw one in Courtenay, in Zellars so had us follow the Doyo around. It was very bloody funny. It looked like the Doyo was about to get her knickers in a knot. As soon as she heard my Nanny Sue call her a Doyo she started to walk away from us and give us a wierd look

You. Its whats for dinner!

As time passes, you realise all the mistakes you amde and the ones you wish you never did make.

Posted:12th Jul 2002You just have to watch a few movies from a few other countries to pick up on what the slang is.

Australia is perhaps too well versed on american slang care of the west coast ghetto you call hollywood. Thankfully we set up an Eastern Gold Coast Hollywood and have mangaged thus far to sell the USA back both the Matrix and the original Scooby Snax.

My big asks are where to now hollywood?? Are we back to Monte Pythonesque? If we are, I have a fantabualous mockumentary to direct.

Posted:12th Jul 2002quote:Originally posted by NYC:Why you dissin' my peeps, biznitch? I thought we wuz mad tight but you really jus a playa hater. I ain't feelin dat, knowwhatImsayin'son? You betta step off before I'm about to teach you some ghetto respect, boy. Cuz that wak shiznick's a fight on my block. Yo, Props to the REAL bouroughs for keeping it real. Crooklyn's in the hizouse now. I ain't feelin Statin Island right now so you betta stop frontin' for I have to drive on out there and gi you some education bout the GHETTO son.I don't know what's scarier, that this is an example of my language or that I understood it...

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love aren't we already there? If there is someone willing to show, and there is someone willing to see; magic happens. This is whem humans are alive. This is when the wingless fly.

Posted:12th Jul 2002Cheers for the tracksuit, it was pucker. Offskie to my see my mum whos a bit of a munter, shes always sucking eggs, and smokes 40 fags a day. I snogged my bloke last night; and he felt my jumper bumps. Went up the apples and pairs, and bonked like a slag. Pooped down the boozer, to talk to a man about a dog, but he'd had 10 pints and was off his tits; he showed me his todger but i said he could go stick it up his own jacksie. Took a waz and then went home.

Just wrote this to illistrate our amazing sense of the English language; i want to point out that this is a made up story.

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Posted:17th Oct 2002By the way (by the by, by the buzz),i think it best to mention that plenty of people are not down with (are not okay with: are you doown with that? No, that's not cool) using "bitch, slut, whore" as a general term for women. Some people do use these words in a slang context and don't mean offense by them, but that does NOT mean that no offense will be taken! People can call me a woman, a girl, girlie, bird, chick, sheila, and like that, but if someone is calling me bitch, slut, whore, skank, etc, they'd better be prepared for a very negative response! That, i might add, is one of the basic diffs (differences) between guys and girls: among male friends an insult is friendly, among women, pretty much an insult is an insult. There are some girls who do more of that sort of talk, and there are a very few of my female friends with whom i'll exchange friendly insults, but on the whole, girls don't do the friendly insult thing with each other...

and...

Spark a nug - yet another term for smoking pot

baked - stoned (high on pot)

frying - tripping on acid

fried - very tired and burnt out

cooked - tired, or in trouble ("He finds out you broke his new wicks, you're cooked, dude")

weak - bad, usually when someone doesn't have a good reason for something they said or did, or when beurocracy interferes with a good time ("we didn't get the burn permit, it was so weak")

don't get your panties in a bunch/knickers in a twist: - calm down, don't be upset

get a grip on your pantyhose - see above

skeezer - sleazy person

hoser - a jerk (this one was big in the 80's and is coming bck around)

wonk - someone who is very focused on what they do, and very good at it, with the connotation of doing things by the rules (linux wonk, hockey wonk, Roland X5 wonk. I've never heard anyone say sex wonk )

Some you'll hear more in Colorado or other mountain areas:

Jeremiah Johnson - someone who is very self-sufficient and experienced in the wilderness (from a 70's movie)

Going up - going hiking/camping/backpacking (in Denver we say Up, in the mountains it's going Out). This is usually accompanied by a little head gesture towards to mountains.

Dusted - got only a little snow

Diamond/double diamond/black diamond - difficult or very difficult, or sometimes very elite. Ski runs are marked by level of difficulty, a run marked with 2 black diamonds is the most difficult and dangerous. ("How'd you do on the test?" "Not so hot, man, it was a double diamond for sure". "Are you gonna ask Suzette out?" "Are you kidding?!? That girl's a black diamond run, dude. She's outta my league")

Posted:26th Aug 2004I got confused in New Zealand, whereTea could mean dinnerA fanny is not your bumschnoggin' is kissingsweet as (not a$$) means, right-on, nicepies aren't usually for dessertand all dessert is called pudding!

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Posted:26th Aug 2004Amen

Oh yeah, I had a point about Pom (an englander) too.

There's two storys about this, one is that it stands for Prisoner Of (her) Majesty. This got a reply (refering to all the Aussie backpackers visiting the mother land) in the form of Jafa -- Just Another "Flipping" Australian, although I admit to never having heard this used.

The other story is that it's short for "pomegranate" which, with a strong Australian accent, will just about rhyme with "immigrant" -- refering partly to all the British backpackers over there

Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand and I can beat the world into submission.

Posted:26th Aug 2004that is so true. My boss is south african and i could never understand what she was saying as just now didn't make sense to me. Now that i read that post i notice that she says that about everything. another thing that she say's alot is "I'm telling you."

Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.

If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?-- Steven Wright

Posted:29th Aug 2004How about those Canadianism, eh? Gotta love those 'uns about booze...

Booting, to boot -- An adult over the age of 18 buying liquor for those who are underage. Ie, "You got a boot tonight?" or "I'm booting for Jaime and Kyle, if they've got the money to pay me."Bunnyhug -- A Saskatchewan term for a kind of hooded sweatshirt with a pocket in the front to keep hands warm. (A hoodie -- I'd never heard of this one, but it's so cute!)Chinook -- Winter storm system that causes warm weather Click -- Kilometre or kilometre per hourDeke, deke out -- To feint, to trick or avoid someone. Ie, to deke out of a meeting.Dick, dick all -- Nothing. Ie, "Whatcha up to tonight?" "Dick all..."Double-double -- Coffee with double cream, double sugar (especially, but not exclusively, from Tim Hortons). Triple-triple and four-by-four (less common) are three and four creams/sugars, respectively."Eh" -- Spoken interjection to ascertain the comprehension, continued interest, agreement, etc., of the person or persons addressed. Can be used in any variety of situations.Forty, forty pounder -- 40 oz. bottle of alcoholHomo milk -- Homogenized milk. Known in the States as whole milk. Nobody here thinks twice about the milk cartons with the word 'Homo' writ in large letters on them.Mickey -- Small (13 oz.) bottle of liquor, shaped to fit in a pocketScreech -- Particularly potent brand of Newfoundland rumToque -- Rhymes with "kook." A kind of hat; a 'beenie', if you will.Two-Four -- A case of REAL beer, a case of twenty-four beers.Weak, makes me weak -- Saying that can mean anything from disbelief to enjoyment. Ie, "So John's going out with Susie!" "That makes me weak!" or, "Hey, check this out!" "Oh, I'm weak!"Zed -- The letter after Y

"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked."Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.""How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice."You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."